Example sentences of "[prep] those [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The situation had been compounded during the elections in the previous month when the Nationalist had taken seventy-three seats out of a total of one hundred and five , and out of those , forty-two of those elected were in jail for various offences related to their opposition of the British presence in Ireland . |
2 | Ten arrests were made on Easter Saturday , with eight of those detained being charged and bailed on condition that they did not come within 15 miles of the Molesworth base . |
3 | In the 1950s and 1960s , most of those surveyed were , or had been , at school under the tripartite system . |
4 | At least 20 of those extradited were reported to have died in prison or to have been executed , including Guët himself . |
5 | Lord Aldington told the jury that the fate of many of those repatriated was awful . |
6 | Well over half of those killed are young children or elderly people who are overcome by smoke and fumes while they sleep at night — people whose chances of survival would be drastically improved if only they were able to reach safety in time . |
7 | One of those killed was a suspect turned witness in the April 1989 murder of a prominent property developer . |
8 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |
9 | But well over half of those killed were young children or elderly people who were quickly overcome by smoke and fumes while they slept at night . |
10 | Over 100 of those killed were paramilitary gendarmes who were stationed in the area to counter Kurdish guerrilla activity . |
11 | Most of those tested were incomplete bilingually . |
12 | ‘ In this way ’ he declared in 1895 , ‘ they would do a thousand times more good than by denouncing Roman Catholics , Unitarians or anyone else. , There were united missionary services and neighbourhood ‘ visitations ’ after which the names of those visited were passed on to a minister of their denomination . |
13 | The vast majority of those prosecuted were found guilty and received sentences which included imprisonment or heavy fines . |
14 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
15 | But equally , MDC in its first eight years was not a major generator of jobs — and the individual cost of those created was extremely high . |
16 | Half of those questioned were happy with British Rail 's service , with 31% dissatisfied . |
17 | Another opinion poll , published in the magazine Cambio 16 , found that only 8% of those questioned were prepared to die for their country . |
18 | Such unofficial green logos only confused " an increasingly sceptical public " , said FoE , citing a reent survey in which 63 per cent of those questioned were " confused " about green claims . |
19 | Thirteen of those charged were convicted of the crime of " favouring the criminal " ( i.e. Ceausescu ) , as opposed to the original charge of " participation in genocide " which was dropped . |
20 | One of those charged was George Finbar O'Doherty , who was alleged to have given a command in Irish to the colour party . |
21 | Dyadic contracts can be divided into colleague contracts referring to relationships between those of equal status and patron-client contracts , where the status of those involved is different . |
22 | A public inquiry into enforcement action by Stockton Borough Council against L and LW Casey and Company over a rundown area of Stockton has been cancelled because one of those involved is seriously ill . |
23 | & name , speaking last week at the unveiling of the commission 's final summary report , said he was struck by how many of those involved are now — like himself — part of the new administration . |
24 | ‘ The precise numbers of those involved are not yet known , ’ explained chief executive Dr Brian Eyre . |
25 | Senior security sources say they are hampered in their investigations because several of those involved are thought to live across the border outside their jurisdiction . |
26 | Unlike , however , the 1958 Notting Hill riots , few of those involved were immigrants — the vast majority were British born . |
27 | A number of those involved were artisans from the Kentish towns , some of whom , particularly those connected with the cloth trade , may have had a special grievance , as a sharp decline in cloth exports after 1448 could well have caused local unemployment ( 66 , pp.96–7 ) . |
28 | If 1 have concentrated on just a few of these predictions this is , in part , because several of those neglected are not unique to the conditioned attention theory and are readily accommodated by its rivals . |
29 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
30 | The next most famous conspiracy , the Folding-Carton case in 1976 , resulted in 36 per cent of those convicted being jailed — the heaviest sentence being fifteen days ( Clinard and Yeager 1980 : 281 ) . |